Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00681)

Leon wrote: <<Thinkers, and fellow searchers for truth, Isn't it 
about time we finally stopped wasting all this endless time,
millions of empty words and beating about the bush fruitlessly 
trying to "scientifically" explain consciousness and will as a 
function, corollary or epiphenomena of physical matter?>>

Leon, as far as I can speculate, scientizings are okay within the 
kind of mental climate (within which duality and maya are given 
much reign) that they seem to be generally given vent to, in that, 
after all, we wouldn't have our various modern scintific 
advantages without the widespread prevalence of such venting, 
would we? Seems to me as if your scientizings, Leon, might be 
fine as far as they go ... but/"but"... what about mahayanics ...

If "logic" (that's rather inescapably dualistic, in essense, as far as 
I can see/speculate) is seen as the prime culprit in that, (as the 
word implies?), it's a manasic, karmic means of coping within 
duality (isn't it?), then why would Theosophists, in particular, 
(who, one might think, might have some interest in transcending 
logic and duality?), want to transcend or even "understand 
about" duality by any means that might seem as if they might be 
somewhat too "logical" too exclusively (not that "exoteric" isn't 
"exoteric" any which way you slice it, but/"but"...), seeing as 
dualistic venting (or the mainstream worldview), in general, 
might be one of the chief reasons why the esoteric tradition 
exists, to begin with, as a "way out" of logic/maya, in a sense? 
Not that ...

Speculatively,
Mauri